Author: LE DRAN Henri-François :
Title: Parallèle des différentes manières de tirer la pierre hors la vessie.
Description: .: 12. Paris; Charles Osmont, 1730, title + (3) + 195 pp + (5) pp + 5 folding plates. Contemporary full leather, raised gilt back, edges painted red, marbled endpapers. (Top of spine damaged, front hinge split over 2 cm, but still a fine/good copy. Garrison-Morton 4283; "Le Dran, French lithotomist, improved the operation of lithotomy. Murphy (see pp 109-10, 115) credits him for originating the lateral lithotomy usually attributed to Cheselden, whose method he discusses." Heirs of Hippocrates 807.. .

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